The trio of Two Golden Men and Rosalie broke up and lost Pierre-Yves Lord, who left his position as co-host of Télé-Québec’s public affairs magazine.
“It was the best experience of my life, two golden men. This show transformed me, but I had the impression of having arrived at the end of a cycle, ”explains Pierre-Yves Lord to me in an interview.
In mid-January, Pierre-Yves Lord, known as PY, invited his colleague Patrick Lagacé and producer Pierre-Louis Laberge to the Montreal Plaza restaurant to tell them that he would not be returning to his job in the fall. PY had just returned from a three-week solo trip to the west coast of Mexico, where he had matured his decision.
“CEGEP, for me, was three great weeks. AT two golden men, I feel like I completed a certificate in college. The art of the interview is not just asking questions behind a microphone, it’s a monk’s preparation work, where you choose each word. It’s trying to get into the head of the person to be interviewed with the extra spice and a different tone,” says Pierre-Yves Lord.
The Quebec public discovered Pierre-Yves Lord at the helm of candy shows like loft story at TQS and Double occupation VAT, jobs that he does not deny, on the contrary. It is however to two golden menwhere he succeeded Jean-Philippe Wauthier in the fall of 2017, that he was able to show his more serious side, less histrionic.
“Yes, I am capable of doing steppettes and DJ sets, but current events interest me just as much. AT two golden men, it’s one of the first times I could be myself. I found myself in all sorts of discussions as much with Minister Geneviève Guilbault, Hubert Lenoir, Marcel Sabourin as with Yannick Nézet-Séguin or Souldia,” recalls Pierre-Yves Lord, 44, who progressed to the final of Masked singers this fall hidden in his Super Otter costume.
Pierre-Yves Lord will never forget his very first interview at two golden men with Quebec showbiz legend Normand Brathwaite. “With great affection, we fought over the quotas for French-language music on commercial radio,” he recalls.
Now what will happen to Two Golden Men and Rosalie in September ? Télé-Québec confirms neither the return nor the disconnection of its Friday evening show. I also spoke with comrade Lagacé, who expressed his interest to the bosses of Télé-Québec to return with Rosalie Bonenfant and a third player to recruit. Smells good for an 11e season, although no contract has yet been signed.
PHOTO MARCO CAMPANOZZI, PRESS ARCHIVES
Pierre-Yves Lord and Patrick Lagacé in 2017
At Radio-Canada, Pierre-Yves Lord will find 100 geniuses in the fall with 100 real geniuses back in the studio. “We are renewing the pool of participants. Meryam Chagouri turned 18 and Émile Bellerose-Simard ran for Québec solidaire in the last election,” says Pierre-Yves Lord, himself the father of a 10-year-old girl and a 13-year-old teenager.
two golden men took the antenna of Télé-Québec in September 2013 with the duo formed by Patrick Lagacé and Jean-Philippe Wauthier. Pierre-Yves Lord joined the team in 2017 and Rosalie Bonenfant joined the duo in winter 2021.
Tough week for drag queens!
Rape after a drunken evening, high heel attack after a shooting in a gay bar and narrowly avoided elimination, the drag queens went through a bumpy week on Quebec TV.
First, Mona de Grenoble came close to being ousted by a vote on Sunday evening at Big Brother Celebrities on the waves of Noovo. Thanks to Jemmy Echaquan-Dubé, who saved Mona by voting to kick Zoé Duval out of the house. It was the invisible boss Marianne Verville who almost got Mona’s still well-wigged head.
In STATdrag queen Judy Guirlande (David Michaël), what a well invented character name, was discharged from Saint-Vincent Hospital, not without trying to unplug the crazed gunman who received the liver from one of his victims, let us not forget that.
It was Judy Guirlande, real name Mathieu Bédard, who neutralized the assassin by hitting him with her shoe. A scene reminiscent of the very real one at Club Q in Colorado Springs, where a crank opened fire during a drag queens show last November. A trans woman then struck the murderer several times with her high heels to subdue him.
Then, in the last episode of Reasonable doubt at Radio-Canada, the authors also explored the world of drag with Kelly Idol, alias Pascal Lacharité (Dominick Rustam). Let’s say that the versions of the meeting between Kelly and the slimy policeman Vincent Dauphinais (Emmanuel Auger) have diverged a lot, without divulging anything.
In this same episode, attentive viewers will also have noticed the flash appearance of Gisèle Lullaby (Simon Gosselin) in the role of landlady Marcelle.
Really, Reasonable doubt does not disappoint this winter and is heading for a traumatic finale. Very excited to see this. There are only two episodes left.